Originally Posted by FlyingHoustonian

then I will repost my response from #15:

while many people are tired of many things going in the USA (re: security) at the moment, my self included, taking the ID out of the wallet/holder should not be one of them. Mind you the ID check itself is for a nother debate, but no having the ID behind plastic is actually very logical and is, and has been used by many governments, the USA included, for years.

All it takes is a cut out of a photo, placed over the the picture in the plastic to fool certain people, and it can look better than one might think.
Plenty of college students in America used (and some still use) this technique when being "carded" for alcohol. THe same can be used for flying.
I entered the Miami, C Pepper Federal building this morning. I had to have an ID out and ready to show-standard procedure. Enter any US or NATO military base and the ID has to be out (this used to not be the rule)-just a few examples).

Debating the policy is one issue, having the ID out of a holder is another.

Ciao,
FH
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This is not some flavour of the month response to ID checking. Having the ID out to inspect is not illogical. If one has issues with the entire process, fine, we have many threads on that. Why exactly is taking an ID out of the holder so stressing and seen as illogical, when others figured out that leaving it in plastic makes it easy to alter?

Ciao,
FH